Official Rules

A limit of one online entry per day is allowed per individual and per e-mail address for each separate online promotion unless otherwise specified. Subsequent entries determined to be submitted from the same email address or from the same individual using multiple email addresses in violation of this rule will be declared ineligible.

All entries received by 11:59 P.M., ET, 12/19/11 from this Bulletin will be eligible for a $70,000.00 prize from Publishers Clearing House Giveaway No. 1553. To enter this Sweepstakes, use one of the links specified in the e-mail. Your entry will be posted to the PCH contest entry files upon using the link, and you will see a message confirming your entry after you use the link. Upon receipt of your entry, a Prize Number will be assigned to you at Publishers Clearing House headquarters. Entries submitted from this Bulletin after the deadline will be deemed invalid.

You will win a prize of $70,000.00 from Giveaway No. 1553 if you submit a timely entry from this Bulletin and have the number that matches the winning number.

You may receive multiple entry opportunities into our ongoing Giveaways. Various presentations of these Giveaways using various prizes/prize values may be presented to the public. The winning entry will be eligible for the prize configuration promoted in the Bulletin or pch.com offer from which it comes. A winner's prize may be supplemented up to the maximum amount of the Giveaway at PCH's option.

Unless otherwise specified, if the matching winning number from a Giveaway has not been returned at giveaway end, the minimum registered prize amount alone is guaranteed to be awarded to an alternate winner by second chance random drawing among eligible entries at giveaway end. In the unlikely event that the winning number from a winning Bulletin/promotion is duplicated, there will be a random drawing among such inadvertently duplicated numbers to determine a winner. In case of a dispute, winning entry will be deemed made by the holder of an established e-mail account associated with the entry.

Prize will be paid in full by check at time of award, unless otherwise noted.

Winners will be notified by mail or in person at our option. Prize award date(s) promoted in this e-mail bulletin may be adjusted to accommodate travel arrangements and scheduling conflicts.The entrant named on the winning entry form will be considered the winner. Winner must be located and sign an Affidavit of Eligibility within 30 days or we will select an alternate winner. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to use winner’s name and photograph for promotional purposes, unless prohibited by law.

PCH Board of Judges' decisions are final. Giveaways may be ended early for promotional purposes, and if so, all eligible entries will be included and the winner selection method will not change. Taxes are winner's responsibility. Giveaway No. 1553 is open to U.S., U.K. and Canadian residents who are physically located and residing within their respective country of residence; except that U.K. and Canadian residents will not be able to enter this Giveaway via this Search & Win website. U.S., U.K. and Canadian residents can enter ongoing giveaways open to them by writing to the address shown below. All Giveaways are void in the province of Quebec and residents of that province are not eligible to enter or win. Principals and employees of Publishers Clearing House and pch.com, their affiliates and subsidiaries, their contest processors, their immediate families and the Board of Judges are not eligible. All federal, state and local laws apply.

By entering this promotion, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the Board of Judges. Publishers Clearing House and their agencies are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Sweepstakes. Publishers Clearing House and their agencies assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Publishers Clearing House and their agencies are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer systems, servers or providers, computer equipment or software on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Sweepstakes. If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Publishers Clearing House, Blingo and/or PCH Search & Win which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Publishers Clearing House reserves the right to terminate the online portion of the promotion. Entries become the property of Publishers Clearing House and will not be returned.

Publishers Clearing House reserves the right through decision by the Board of Judges to disqualify any entry determined to be the result of tampering with the Publishers Clearing House online system and/or Search and Win search services in violation of the letter and spirit of the official rules. Any use of programmed, automatic or scripted entry methods will void all associated entries and individuals using such methods may be disqualified for future entry opportunity.

Write-In Entry Instructions. You may write in as often as you like to enter our ongoing Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes at the address below. Sweepstakes eligibility will be based on date the write-in entry is received. Just mail each entry separately. We do not accept entries from a third party or entries sent in bulk.

To receive future Sweepstakes opportunities, to obtain our most recent list of winners, or if you wish to stop receiving Bulletins from us, just let us know by calling the number or writing to us at the address above.

ALL PRIZES ARE GUARANTEED TO BE AWARDED AS OFFEREDNO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTERBUYING WON’T HELP YOU WIN

SWEEPSTAKES FACTS

Prize/Value

Giveaway No.

End Date

Est. Odds of Winning

$70,000.00

1553

12/30/11

1 in 185,000,000

You Have Not Yet Won. All Entries Have The Same Chance Of Winning. The winner has not been identified. We don't know who the winner is. If you enter our Sweepstakes, your entry will have the same chance to win as every other entry.

Enter For Free. You don't have to buy anything to enter. Just follow the instructions in the Official Rules.

Enter As Often As You Like. You don't have to wait for us to e-mail you an entry opportunity. You may submit additional entries simply by writing to us at: 101 Winners Circle, Port Washington, NY 11053-4016. Each time you write to us you will be entered once into each ongoing sweepstakes. Each entry request must be mailed separately.

Buying Won't Help You Win. Your chances of winning without a purchase are the same as the chances of someone who buys something. It would not be lawful to give any advantage to buyers in a Sweepstakes.